“Real Time” host Bill Maher connected the dots between Democrats’ abrupt cleanup of San Francisco ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit and former President Donald Trump’s potential election victory in 2024.
This week, San Francisco hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, where world leaders and business giants rubbed shoulders and President Biden had a one-on-one meeting with Xi.
But after years of decline in the Golden City, most notably the homelessness plaguing its streets, Democrats at the local and state level rolled out the red carpet for the Chinese leader by clearing the sidewalks.
“I want to prove to you a theory of why Trump is sweeping, not only within the party, but also beating Biden badly,” Maher began the roundtable on Friday. “Because Xi, President Xi of China, came to our state this week and met with Biden in San Francisco and they had a little summit.”
“And they did something very interesting in San Francisco. I mean, I’ve made many, many jokes like a lot of comedians make about stepping and pooping in San Francisco and, you know, it’s a city that needs to be brought under control, and they did! Because Xi was coming! Let go of the fact that you only clean when company comes over? Maher joked. “Okay, they cleaned it up, they rinsed the street, the homeless, you know, God forbid the guy who sends us the fentanyl sees anyone taking fentanyl.”
Comedian Bill Maher jokes that Democrats only clean up when company comes, and he worries that could cost Biden the election. FilmMagic, Inc for HBO Films The Democratic Party made sure San Francisco was squeaky clean ahead of Xi Jinping’s arrival at APEC. AFP via Getty Images
“To me, this is why Trump is winning, because he talks about ‘I’m going to open the mental hospitals.’ Again, I’m not saying they’re necessarily a good solution,” Maher continued. “When he talks, ‘I’m going to put people in camps, put immigrants,’ all that kind of stuff, people just see a place, a country, especially in cities that seem out of control. And the fact that the Democrats could control it for three days, how about we make it permanent?”
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has received many presidential rumors as an alternative to the embattled Biden, admitted that the only reason public officials waited until APEC to clean up San Francisco was to impress world leaders like Xi.
“I know people say, ‘Oh, they’re just cleaning this place up because all these fancy leaders are coming to town.’ That’s true, because it’s true,” Newsom said during a news conference last week, which received intense backlash on social media.
Caliornia Gavin Newsom admitted they only cleaned up San Francisco for their “fancy” visitors. AFP via Getty Images
The liberal comedian has been sounding the alarm that Trump will win the presidency in 2024, repeatedly urging Biden, whose 81st birthday is on Nov. 20, to step aside and allow a younger Democrat to take over.
He has been comparing Biden to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who refused to resign during the Obama presidency and was later replaced by Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, declaring the elderly incumbent “Ruth Bader Biden.”
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